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Cowboys sign TE Jake Ferguson to 4-year, $52 million extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6518347/2025/07/27/cowboys-jake-ferguson-contract-extension/

So potus is proud of raising $80 billion in tariffs this year so far.
Biden raised $50 billion in tariffs in 2022 without crippling industries and alienating the world’s commerce.
Also, the U.S. government spends $38.7 billion on paper in 2022.
The whole U.S. government budget: $5.35 trillion.
So in 33 years, #TrumpTariffs might pay for a single year.
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Paper forms cost government $38.7B annually says US Chamber of Commerce
The organization finds federal agencies processed 9,858 unique forms and more than 106 billion total between September 2021 and August 2022.

Gestern demonstrierten rund 60 Fahrradfahrer:nnen in #Osnabrück für bessere Radwege. Eine schöne Spazierfahrt die bei 18 Grad etwas kälter als erwartet fand. Da wir als Gruppe als ein Fahrzeug gelten, können wir Kreuzungen und Überwege passieren, sobald die ersten Räder drüber sind. Auch wenn dass dann z.B. wieder Rot wird. Das fühlt sich seltsam an, und macht Laune. Endlich mal Vorfahrt für …

"Tearable puns"

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#DebateAMovieExtraneously

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining #EU

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon sinks, is becoming increasingly weaker.

Agent's Take: What extensions could look like for Garrett Wilson, Aidan Hutchinson, other 2022 first-rounders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Selenskyj bestätigt Gefangenenaustausch
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat den Austausch von Kriegsgefangenen in seinem Telegram-Kanal bestätigt. Die meisten nun heimgekehrten Ukrainer seien bereits seit 2022 in Gefangenschaft gewesen, schrieb Selenskyj. Demnach handelte es sich um Soldaten, Angehörige der Nationalgarde, des Grenzschutzes und der Eisenbahntruppen, aber auch um Zivilis…
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Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew, mit Details zu den drastischen russischen Angriffen auf Kiew
Vassili Golod, ARD Kiew, mit Details zu den drastischen russischen Angriffen auf Kiew

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 19 nodes and 172 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
Kate Genevieve, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, John Elliott, Martin Dominik, Emily Finer, Kathryn Denning, Chelsea Haramia, George Profitiliotis, Carol A. Oliver, Anamaria Berea, Arik Kershenbaum, Daliah Bibas, Hannah Little, William H. Edmondson, Pauli Laine
https://

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobiology agenda, guided by the existing interdisciplinary framework of the SETI PostDetection Hub (est. 2022) at the University of St Andrews (Elliot et al. 2023), which emphasizes comprehensive preparedness across science, society, governance, and communication. NASA can significantly enhance readine…

Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Bo Li, Chenyue Liu, Ali Mostafavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00650

Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Evacuation is critical for disaster safety, yet agencies lack timely, accurate, and transparent tools for evacuation prediction. This study introduces Evac-Cast, an interpretable machine learning framework that predicts tract-level evacuation rates using over 20 features derived from four dimensions: hazard intensity, community vulnerability, evacuation readiness, and built environment. Using an XGBoost model trained on multi-source, large-scale datasets for two hurricanes (Ian 2022, Milton 202…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Redbone:
🎵 Come and Get Your Love
#Redbone
https://funkyganesh.bandcamp.com/track/redbone-come-get-your-love-funky-ganesh-2022-retouch
https://open.spotify.com/track/5519RhpzObr9Mn3iqoeodJ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
This post provides links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast.
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Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02684 https://arxiv.org…

A natural and short proof of Lee's conjecture on the Frobenius norm
In 2010, Eun-Young Lee conjectured that if $A,B$ are two $n\times n$ complex matrices and $\left|A\right|, \left|B\right|$ are the absolute values of $A, B$, respectively, then \[ \|A+B\|_F\le \sqrt{\dfrac{1+\sqrt{2}}{2}}\|\left|A\right|+\left|B\right|\|_F, \] where $\|\cdot\|_F$ is the Frobenius norm of matrices. This conjecture was initially proven by Lin and Zhang [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 516 (2022) 126542] by studying inequa…

A Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller to manage epidemics: The case of SARS-CoV-2 in Mauritius
S. Z. Sayed Hassen, A. Aboudonia, J. Lygeros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01996

A Data-Driven Model Predictive Controller to manage epidemics: The case of SARS-CoV-2 in Mauritius
This work investigates the benefits of implementing a systematic approach to social isolation policies during epidemics. We develop a mixed integer data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme based on an SIHRD model which is identified from available data. The case of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (also known as COVID-19) in Mauritius is used as a reference point with data obtained during the period December 2021 to May 2022. The isolation scheme is designed with the control decision…